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Growing up in Vancouver in the 1950s, I was often capricious and temperamental, quick to laugh, even quicker to feel despair, prone to flailing my arms, pouting and crying when things didn't go my way, or I thought something was unfair, or I was bullied by my sisters.

I was a quicksilver girl who saw every leaf on every tree. For me, there was no middle ground between sinking and flying, and once I was into my early adult years, my roller coaster got wilder and faster: I seemed to rise and fall with the same reckless velocity.

I wince at some of the things I did as the young wife of Canada's fifteenth prime minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau.

At 65, most of us still have a lot to give and a lot to contribute.

A truly empowered woman turns her values into verbs. She understands what she values most, and she takes steps to bring that value to life.

I certainly don't have all the answers, but I know this to be true: we have a great degree of control over what happens to us in the last third of our lives.

Simply put, women should prepare in their 50s for the rest of their lives.

Our youth-oriented society does not have a clearly defined place for the older woman.

I have learned one thing: the only thing you can change about your husband is the way he dresses.

I turned 65 and thought, 'Oh my God, I'm a senior. How did this happen?'

I'm an old hippie who lives in the now. I seldom look forward, but we have to.

I was a late bloomer on the career front.

I don't think I'm marriage material, to tell you the truth. I'd be a bad choice. But I'd be darling at being a girlfriend.

I am a free spirit that must survive in a free world.

I am not a weirdo, a wacko, or an eccentric for wanting to do good, honest work on a day-to-day basis.

I just want to find my individuality.

I've had enough of being public property.

Everywhere I go, particularly when there's people who know me or recognize me, I get the warmest hugs and happiest sighs full of hope and full of relief.

Who am I - Canada's Rodney Dangerfield? I get no respect.

I don't care about the respect of the press or the public or anybody. Whose respect every day I'm trying to garner is the respect of my children and my grandchildren and my friends, the people I work with.

I have worked hard to become happy. It was a real struggle.

I miss being exposed to the leading thinkers of the world.

I know it will blow minds, but I plan on finding an apartment in New York. I'll commute to Ottawa, so I can still be Pierre Trudeau's wife and the mother of our three children - but I also want to be a working photographer.

There's nothing antifeminist about showing a lovely body; it's part of the person you are.

I've never been one to celebrate anniversaries.

The label 'wife of the prime minister' is like a giant signboard pointing at my head from a Monty Python sketch. But I am not Mrs. Prime Minister. I'm a human being.

I have studied Freud and that kind of thing. I just never thought I would need it.

I prepared myself for my marriage to Pierre Trudeau, but I didn't prepare myself for marriage to the prime minister.

I don't paint, and I can't draw, but I see things, I think, quite well, and I love being able to freeze things with the camera, particularly the children. Then I discovered with the camera that you can tell a whole story with just freezing a moment in reality. I find it a very good way, a very satisfying feeling.

I'm pretty much an out-front, straightforward chick, and I get a bit confused by expectations.

Politics is an ugly and thankless role.

I tried during the 1974 campaign to show my husband not as the aloof intellectual people think he is, but the warm, passionate man I know. But the day after the election - after I'd worked so hard - I was put back on the shelf. I was devastated.

I can't be a rose in any man's lapel.

Everyone wants a loving, equal relationship.

I tend to keep the press at a distance, you know, and I don't really react to what they say. I react to what I feel more.

I feel very confident and positive about my life.

If you rely completely on protocol, you can become a robot.

I'm no political pundit.

Suddenly I turned 65 and realized, 'Oh my goodness, I'm old.' I think it was when I got into the movie theatres cheaper.

For me, because I'm a mental health advocate, I want everyone to be the healthiest they can be.

Don't feel badly when you take off work to go for a run, to go for a walk; don't feel badly to take time to play with your children, to be part of their lives. Work is important, but you can't work at your best unless you're a whole person.

When you're mentally ill, sometimes you're so self-involved that you forget how much you're hurting all the people around you who love you so much, because you don't understand that you've got to get help.

I had to divorce my husband, the prime minister. I found it terribly overwhelming.

I don't think Pierre Trudeau knew how to be a husband. I couldn't stay in that marriage.

I have five of the most beautiful children.

I love the life I've had.

Bad choices make good stories.

I know what it's like to feel marginalized and defeated and humiliated by suffering from a mental illness.

I strongly believe that privacy is one of the biggest luxuries one can have in life - to have your own private world and not be invaded by the outside.

I live with being bipolar, but it doesn't define me anymore.

The main thing that triggered my depression was my isolation that was imposed on me by becoming the wife of the prime minister, and leaving my home, my family. I was young, very young, and very naive and very hopeful and enthusiastic about my wonderful new life, but it was the loneliness and the lack of being able to properly relate to people.

I can only ask people to be tolerant of the fact that the... pressures of wives of politicians is very, very strong.

Mania is the most destructive of the forces. Everybody around you will tell you you're in trouble, and you can't hear what they are saying.

We don't help people mourn in our society.

Every day is wonderful for me.

My life for so many years was a reality show.

Canadians know me so well - I am part of Canada's collective memory - and my fame would get people through the door who would not otherwise be interesting in talking about mental health.

I have some great stories. But I am also very human, and I suffered an awful lot.

I have had quite the grand, interesting life.

I was so surprised, astonished, when I lost my mind, because I didn't think that I ever would. I assumed I would always be just fine.

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